Summer Reading Assignment
1. Read Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
2. Take double-entry journal notes so that you will
remember the book in August (particularly reactions and
critical thinking). 10 entries per book.
3. When returning to school, you will use your double-entry
journal notes to complete a test on the novel. The journal
will also be collected for a grade.
* Pre-AP: Choose at least 1 other book to read from the list
and make a journal with 10 entries.
Summer Reading Goals
1.To grow as learners. The more you read, the more
interesting life becomes!
2.To create a community of readers.
3.To share good books and encourage others to read
them.
4.To generate discussions with your peers and teachers.
DOUBLE-ENTRY JOURNAL HANDOUT
TEXT EVIDENCE
Significant quote from text
(include page #)
Page #_____
Page #_____
THOUGHTS
Analysis/Question/Opinion/
Connection/etc.
Re- AP/I.S. Reading Options
Go Tell it On the Mountain – James Baldwin: The novel examines the role of the Christian
Church in the lives of African-Americans, both as a source of repression and moral hypocrisy and
as a source of inspiration and community. It also, more subtly, examines racism in the United
States.
The Road- Cormac McCarthy: It is a post-apocalyptic tale of a journey of a father and his young
son over a period of several months, across a landscape blasted by an unspecified cataclysm that
has destroyed most of civilization and, in the intervening years, almost all life on Earth.
Tess of D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy: A woman’s family sends her to live with her presumed rich
relatives and she gets taken advantage of at her new home and struggles to find herself.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn- Mark Twain: Huckleberry Finn is the main character, and
through his eyes, the reader sees and judges the South, its faults, and its redeeming qualities.
Huck's companion Jim, a runaway slave, provides friendship and protection while the two
journey along the Mississippi on their raft.
Re- AP/I.S. Reading Options
The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway: a group of American and British expatriates who travel
from Paris to the Festival of San Fermín in Pamplona to watch the running of the bulls and
the bullfights. Hemingway presents his notion that the "Lost Generation", considered to have
been decadent, dissolute and irretrievably damaged by World War I, was resilient and strong.
Invisible Man- Ralph Ellison: An African American man tells his story of his “invisibility in the
American South in the 1920s and 30s. He addresses his racial and personal identity in the face of
brutal racism.
The Grapes of Wrath- John Steinbeck: Set during the Great Depression, the novel focuses on the
Joads, a poor family of tenant farmers driven from their Oklahoma home by drought, economic
hardship, agricultural industry changes and bank foreclosures forcing tenant farmers out of
work. The Joads set out for California. Along with thousands of other "Okies", they sought jobs,
land, dignity, and a future.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn- Mark Twain: Huckleberry Finn is the main character, and
through his eyes, the reader sees and judges the South, its faults, and its redeeming qualities.
Huck's companion Jim, a runaway slave, provides friendship and protection while the two
journey along the Mississippi on their raft.